Howard Gardner Quotes

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

All children have gifts, some open them at different times.

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.

The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.

Realizing that my children are the center of the universe and not me is probably one of the greatest ways to acclimatize.

It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their potential. You are not to impose yourself upon them. They are not going to live in the same times, they are not going to face the same problems. They will be part of another world. Don´t prepare them for this world, this society, this time, because then you will be creating troubles for them. They will find themselves unfit, unqualified.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.